Risk Early Warning of Food Quality Safety in Meat Processing Industry
Open Access
- 9 September 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by MDPI AG in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Vol. 17 (18), 6579
- https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186579
Abstract
In recent years, people’s demand for meat products has increased, but the occurrence of meat food quality and safety problems has also caused irreparable losses to the safety of human lives and properties, and enterprises have lost their reputation. Since the frequent occurrence of food quality and safety incidents is the result of the lack of an early warning mechanism, a large number of problematic foods flow into the market. In order to prevent the occurrence of food quality and safety incidents and control food quality from the source, this article first refers to the results of EFSA’s Emerging Risks Project (EMRISK) and the food safety early warning framework of Kleter and Marvin, combined with the existing meat processing companies. Some quality control systems have put forward an early warning indicator system that includes the external environment of the enterprise, internal risks, and consumers’ concerns. Then, by issuing 500 questionnaires and interviewing 25 experts, 912 pieces of data were collected and a Monte Carlo simulation early warning model was established. Using case studies, taking Shandong Delis Co., Ltd. (Binzhou, China, hereinafter referred to as DLS) as an example, through sensitivity analysis and program analysis, the company’s food risk status and early warning model was evaluated. The results show that the risk of rising consumers’ concerns about counterfeiting and inferior products has the greatest impact on food quality and safety risks, followed by policy adjustment risks, and the risk of raw material sources ranked third. A total of six important risk warning indicators have been extracted, and these six need to be strictly controlled to control the overall risk. The research provides support for companies to formulate food quality monitoring, early warning and management strategies from a macro perspective, and control key early warning indicators in food quality and safety to reduce risks.Keywords
Funding Information
- Chinese National Funding of Social Sciences (16BGL175)
- National Key Research and Development Project (2017YFF0209604-2)
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